US President Donald Trump in March ridiculed Lesotho as a place "nobody has ever heard of" and then this week hit the tiny African kingdom with ... the Switzerland of Africa because of its ...

A 444-million-year-old fossil without a shell or limbs has been discovered in South Africa with soft tissues intact.

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...